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Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes

Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes. Common Crimes. 1876 – Lucy Lowe convicted for murdering her baby girl. 1873 – John Walker convicted for stealing onions. Treatment in Jails/Courts. Convicts exercising in a London prison. Victorian court trial. Capital Punishment.

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Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes

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  1. Victorian Crime, Punishment, and the Criminal Classes

  2. Common Crimes 1876 – Lucy Lowe convicted for murdering her baby girl 1873 – John Walker convicted for stealing onions

  3. Treatment in Jails/Courts Convicts exercising in a London prison Victorian court trial

  4. Capital Punishment Interior of a Victorian hanging shed Caged prisoners waiting to be sent to penal servitude

  5. Crimes Considered Capital Offenses

  6. Criminal Classes A street in the criminal class Policeman holding off a criminal class citizen

  7. “Bobbies” and “Peelers” The outfit Portrait of old-fashioned “peelers”

  8. Scotland Yard

  9. Old Bailey

  10. Newgate

  11. Crime and Punishment in Victorian Literature Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations

  12. Jack the Ripper How Jack the Ripper is believed to have looked

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